Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 28
Once in the tank he was unable to get out, for its sides were built of masonry, and it was impossible for him to climb them.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: be, get out, build, climb · To what, where: sides, observations
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 unable | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 tank | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tank | det |
| 4 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unable | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unable | cop |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 built | mark |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sides | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 built | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 built | aux:pass |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 unable | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 masonry | case |
| 18 | masonry | masonry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 impossible | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 impossible | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 impossible | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 impossible | cop |
| 23 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 unable | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 impossible | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 climb | mark |
| 27 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 impossible | csubj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 climb | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hare | once, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get out | to-infinitive | Hare not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | build | past · passive | tank's sides | of masonry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Hare not said here | for Hare; impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | climb | to-infinitive | observations = observation | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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